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Agnostic Bear
02-06-2009, 07:24 PM
which iMac to get, go forth and tell me. Price is no concern.

By price is no concern I mean like £3k, 4k whatever, just don't go insane.
Stephen!
02-06-2009, 07:41 PM
Get the best one.
AgnesIO
02-06-2009, 07:49 PM
The obvious choice would be:

17in MacPro
8gb RAM
256gb Solid State Harddrive

3.6k

:D
Agnostic Bear
02-06-2009, 08:05 PM
The obvious choice would be:

17in MacPro
8gb RAM
256gb Solid State Harddrive

3.6k

:D

Are you unable to read "iMac"?
HotelUser
02-06-2009, 08:13 PM
24 inch
2.66Ghz
4GB ram
640GB HDD
GeFirce 9400M gfx

Fair price for an AIO, and their 24" screens are godly. The extra hard drive space could be used for bootcamp/vmware/parallels .
GommeInc
02-06-2009, 08:26 PM
I read somewhere SSDs are crap, and just get slower and slower. Is that true?
HotelUser
02-06-2009, 08:32 PM
I read somewhere SSDs are crap, and just get slower and slower. Is that true?

They're fast, expensive, and have a shorter life span than harddrives.

That is not to say that have a short lifespan in general though.

I have noticed that my Aspire One, has been faster than my AsusEEE. Both have the exact same specifications, but the EEE has a SSH and the AOne has a HHD.
Nick.
02-06-2009, 08:40 PM
I thought it was all over priced under powered eye candy junk? :rolleyes:

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GommeInc
02-06-2009, 09:32 PM
I read that they're fast, but the writing times and so on get slower and slower (can't remember why). So eye candy it must be! Or for people who like living on the edge.
HotelUser
02-06-2009, 09:37 PM
I read that they're fast, but the writing times and so on get slower and slower (can't remember why). So eye candy it must be! Or for people who like living on the edge.

I have not heard about the write speed being reduced over time, though if that's true then SSDs are pretty useless.
Turbocom
02-06-2009, 11:15 PM
Why bother with an iMac. Don't you UKers have like Kijiji? I got a brand new Mac Mini with a Mighty Mouse, Keyboard, and Leopard/iLife 09/iWork 09 all for $580

Works great, some guy bought it and didn't like it so he didn't bother with it.
AgnesIO
03-06-2009, 06:53 AM
Are you unable to read "iMac"?

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Recursion
03-06-2009, 07:48 AM
Whats happened to you Mr Jew? You used to be cool ;[
Agnostic Bear
03-06-2009, 08:09 AM
Whats happened to you Mr Jew? You used to be cool ;[

I'm only thinking of buying it so when people say "hurr durr you don't know what a mac is like" I can say "yes I do, I own one, shut up and stop yapping".
Recursion
03-06-2009, 09:03 AM
Don't give Apple so much money, go for a second hand Mini.
AgnesIO
03-06-2009, 05:03 PM
I'm only thinking of buying it so when people say "hurr durr you don't know what a mac is like" I can say "yes I do, I own one, shut up and stop yapping".


So you are goig to pay 4k to proove people wrong?

You are being totally idiotic if that is the case.
5,5
03-06-2009, 07:46 PM
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MrPinkPanther
03-06-2009, 07:56 PM
I'm only thinking of buying it so when people say "hurr durr you don't know what a mac is like" I can say "yes I do, I own one, shut up and stop yapping".


Don't give Apple so much money, go for a second hand Mini.

I thought that Macs were crap too but I had to use OSX to do iPhone stuff and actually I'm quite impressed with them. For years I've been a loyalist PC supporter but I might just have to make the change....


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Wow, you failed in a lame attempt to be funny. Congrats.
5,5
04-06-2009, 02:05 PM
I thought that Macs were crap too but I had to use OSX to do iPhone stuff and actually I'm quite impressed with them. For years I've been a loyalist PC supporter but I might just have to make the change....


Wow, you failed in a lame attempt to be funny. Congrats.

Wasent trying to be funny, stated a fact.
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Agnostic Bear
04-06-2009, 03:12 PM
I've decided as I'm upgrading my current computer and getting rid of pretty much everything in it, I'll be using my old components to build myself a hackintosh, the only reason I can't use OS X now is because of the 4890, that will change when I build as I have a 3870 left over doing nothing.
Flisker
04-06-2009, 04:11 PM
I've decided as I'm upgrading my current computer and getting rid of pretty much everything in it, I'll be using my old components to build myself a hackintosh, the only reason I can't use OS X now is because of the 4890, that will change when I build as I have a 3870 left over doing nothing.
Cool I don't really like hackintosh much as you have to do so much if you want to update the software it just gets annoying after a while.
Agnostic Bear
04-06-2009, 04:23 PM
Cool I don't really like hackintosh much as you have to do so much if you want to update the software it just gets annoying after a while.

No it doesn't, I use a vanilla kernel, updating through software update "just works".

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